Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe

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Pros:

Excellent performance; attractivelooking card; DisplayPort connector.

Factory overclock is stable; Great performance; Super quiet.

Reasonable price, Faster than GTX 480, Overclocked out of the box, Very quiet in idle, Reduced power consumption, Native HDMI & DisplayPort output, Professional looks, Support for DirectX 11, Support for CUDA / PhysX

Reasonable price, Faster than GTX 480, Overclocked out of the box, Very quiet in idle, Reduced power consumption, Native HDMI & DisplayPort output, Professional looks, Support for DirectX 11, Support for CUDA / PhysX

Still not as power efficient as AMD's designs, Does not use CHiL voltage regulator less options for voltage tuning, Higher power draw than reference design, Noisy under load, Power draw limiter could complicate advanced overclocking, Still limited to

Expert reviews and ratings

Good performance out-of-the-box Palit has complemented the good performance with good pricing. While the MRP may read Rs. 32,300, the street price for the GTX 570 Sonic Platinum edition is closer to Rs. 24,750. The Asus ENGTX 570 Direct CU II faces...

Palit’s high-end cards tend to be exercises in extravagance. That’s certainly true with its GTX 570 Sonic Platinum. At first, we thought Palit shipped the wrong card, given the 8-pin power connector nestled adjacent to the 6-pin connector,...

Well, the GTX 570 was finally launched by Nvidia two weeks ago, so the time is ripe to get some factory overclocked versions of the card from various manufacturers. Today I’ll be having a look at the Palit GTX 570 Sonic Platinum...

NVIDIA got it right once again. There is a perfect balance of price, performance-level, and power-draw, it all fell in the right place. The GTX 570 is giving you performance level on-par with the GeForce GTX 480, but at a very reasonable price, and at...

Today we shall review a couple of card from Palit: a GeForce GTX 570 from the Sonic Platinum series, which is quite similar to counterparts from Gainward and Zotac, and a GeForce GTX 580 with as many as 3GB of video memory. Specifications Palit...

Many users came to know and love the NVIDIA GTX 480, but as with all components, it eventually had to be replaced. Luckily for us, NVIDIA replaced the GTX 480 with the more power conscious GTX 570. We've seen a few of these cards from different...

Final Words & Conclusion Nice, I find the Palit GeForce GTX 570 Sonic Platinum edition a surprisingly interesting product. See by itself it produces roughly the same TDP, power consumption and noise levels as the reference design. But the cooler...